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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify in court on Tuesday, January 17 for a potentially explosive lawsuit that claims the Oculus VR startup he acquired for $2 billion was based on stolen technology. The more than two...

GUEST: A true genius in his own right, a whole new generation came to know Alan Turing, played brilliantly by Benedict Cumberbatch, in the movie on his life and impact on ending WWII, The Imitation Game. Turing predicted...

Video game tapes have shrunk a bit over the past 30 years. To save the battery life in its upcoming Switch console, Nintendo is not using spinning discs like Blu-rays. Instead, the hybrid handheld/home system will use a ...

China as a nation has a checkered past with the video game industry. For example, for almost a decade and a half, home video game consoles themselves were banned in the country, but due to cultural differences, internet ...

GUEST: A few months ago, a friend called me excitedly to share a startup idea. He was an investor's dream entrepreneur: engineering undergrad with an MBA from MIT, worked at Google, and literally wrote a book on the core...

Cars that drive you home on their own. Cars that connect to other cars and also to the stoplight in front of you. Cars that are much safer and reduce accidents. This is what we can expect in the next few years as AI and ...

Some of the biggest problems in business communication, and even in our personal lives, happen because we assume that we are being clear. We're not. At least, not to everyone.

Barack Obama's farewell speech and Donald Trump's press conference reveal not only how different they are, but their supporters as well. Americans can agree on one thing: we can't agree on anything. Cartoon by Joe Heller...

GUEST: While the details of the Trump administration's economic policies are still to be determined, the President-elect's comments on the campaign trail indicate he is ready to shake up the status quo. Recent interviews...

The technology behind smarter kitchens that fight the war on food waste

When the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packerskickoff this afternoon in their NFC Divisional Championship Game, NFL fans will be treated to a game between two of the league's most storied football franchises. Nevertheless...

Designing new cards for digital card brawler like Hearthstone isn’t easy, and changes are bound to happen before the final release. It turns out that the whole Jade Golem idea used to look a lot different. In its final...

Over the years, I have pitched my companies more times than I can count. Every week I am pitching someone. It is a basic exercise for start-ups. If you're not pitching, you're not going to move forward. It's that simple....

A small autonomous bus called an Arma is running a short route along Las Vegas' Fremont Street, marking, according to transit operator Keolis, the first time a self-driving bus has moved passengers on an American public ...

The VR community was hit with quite a shock yesterday. Guerrilla Cambridge, the Sony-owned developer behind PlayStation VR multiplayer first-person shooter Rigs: Mechanized Combat League, was confirmed to be closing just...

After 146 years, the Greatest Show on Earth is closing. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told the Associated Press that the show will shut for good in May. The American icon tried to revive its fortunes with mod...

The Hunters weren’t always Grimy Goons. The newest expansion for Blizzard’s digital card game behemoth Hearthstone, December’s Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, introduced the idea of tri-class gangs. Three of the game’...

GUEST: At one of my recent talks in New York about AI in the supply chain, one of the key questions that came up was 'are you talking about robots?' You see, AI has been romanticized to this abstract term that conjures i...

The road to photorealistic VR is long, but Otoy is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity. The company announced last month that its Octane Renderer would be coming to...

During all the fuss about the Nintendo Switch yesterday, 505 Games announced a new game called Quarantine. It wasn’t the best timing, but I thought the new original title was worth a second look. Quarantine is about wa...

GUEST: Millennials love to chat. Their personal lives rotate around messaging and instant gratification. From getting their pals' views on a new t-shirt they are thinking of buying to sharing their new year resolutions p...

PREVIEW: Mario Kart 8 is back for another race around the track. By reviving the Wii U era game with minimum additions, it seems Nintendo thinks that it was the Wii U console — not its software — that caused the syst...